Re: Dragonfly

[Matthew Gracie <graciem () CANISIUS EDU>]

Di Fabio, Andrea wrote:
> Are there institutions using Dragonfly from http://www.dragonfly.com ?
> If so, I would be interested in hearing if you are shaping this
> application's bandwidth or have taken any other measures to throttle it down
> and control the IP addresses it talks to.
>
> One of our department has purchased the software and it seems to be very
> bandwidth thirsty.  In addition the P2P model they are using seems not to
> handle RFC1918 IP addresses so our internal sensors are triggering when
> Dragonfly tries to connect to a peer over a private IP.

Our athletics department has this, and it is indeed an incredibly
bandwidth-greedy application. We've got it in a throttled class using
our Packetshaper, which seems to be mitigating the resource use.

--Matt

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